Phil Jackson Quotes

Well, this is something I never thought could possibly happen, to be standing back again, less than one year after having been part of the dissolution of this organization and the changing of the guard, so to speak, and feeling so comfortable stepping back into this position.

Phil Jackson

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• Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Strong
  • Mom
  • Audience

• The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • You
  • Opportunities

• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • France
  • Southern
  • Invasion

• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Experience

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Success
  • Team

• It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Beginning
  • New
  • Trends

• I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Night
  • Change

• When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stars
  • New
  • India

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Heart
  • You
  • Open

• I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Being Alive

• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Health
  • Read
  • Doctor

• I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog.

  

  Jason Chaffetz
  • Up
  • Running

• We Liberals like to think our thoughts aren't controlled. We pride ourselves on our independent thinking. We know we shouldn't believe everything we read. We realize the media is skewed, we know it's owned by a small group of people, we realize it's biased, etc.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Well, this is something I never thought could possibly happen, to be standing back again, less than one year after having been part of the dissolution of this organization and the changing of the guard, so to speak, and feeling so comfortable stepping back into this position.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Feeling
  • Organization
  • Guard